April 2016 Monthly Meeting
An Evening with Cherokee Writer Kimberly L. Becker
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Kimberly is a published poet with two collections and has also published fiction, essays, reviews, and interviews, as well as adapting plays from traditional Cherokee stories. A native of North Carolina, she lived in Knoxville for a few years, where she still has family. Of mixed descent, identifying Cherokee, Kimberly's work is influenced by Cherokee language, history, and culture. She considers her writing a journey home to self, even as she seeks to witness to the wider world. In addition to reading from her work, Kimberly will address issues pertaining to writers of all levels in all genres, including craft, revisions, submissions, coping with rejection, strategies for writers block, and the value of literary community. Come ready to listen, learn, and maybe even laugh as Kimberly shares the joys and pitfalls of the writing life! Book signing to follow.
Of Cherokee/Celtic/Teutonic descent, Kimberly L. Becker is author of Words Facing East (2011) and The Dividings (2014), both from WordTech Editions. Her work appears widely, including the “Native American Women’s Poetry” folio in Drunken Boat, in Blackbird, and in an issue of Fulcrum focusing on Native/Mixed writers. In addition, her poetry has been anthologized in volumes such as Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2013) and Indigenous Message on Water (Indigenous World Forum on Water and Peace, 2014) and is forthcoming in Bared (Les Femmes Folles Books, 2016). Kimberly was recipient of an Individual Artist Award in Poetry from the Maryland State Arts Council and a prior grant from the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, Maryland funded her study of Cherokee language, history, and culture in Cherokee, NC. She has also been awarded residencies at Hambidge and Weymouth and was included among featured readers at The Florida Review’s “Native Writers in DC” at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. Kimberly’s interviews with other Native writers appear at Eclectica and her reviews have been published at Blackbird, as well as Eclectica, among other venues. She has published essays at Yellow Medicine Review and Talking Stick, as well as fiction at Dead Mule, Parting Gifts, and SNReview. Kimberly has also written for the Cherokee Youth in Radio Project, adapting traditional Cherokee stories into plays and her interview with the Project’s Instructor, EBCI member Shawn Crowe, was published at Eclectica. For more on Kimberly and her writing, please visit www.kimberlylbecker.com
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Kimberly is a published poet with two collections and has also published fiction, essays, reviews, and interviews, as well as adapting plays from traditional Cherokee stories. A native of North Carolina, she lived in Knoxville for a few years, where she still has family. Of mixed descent, identifying Cherokee, Kimberly's work is influenced by Cherokee language, history, and culture. She considers her writing a journey home to self, even as she seeks to witness to the wider world. In addition to reading from her work, Kimberly will address issues pertaining to writers of all levels in all genres, including craft, revisions, submissions, coping with rejection, strategies for writers block, and the value of literary community. Come ready to listen, learn, and maybe even laugh as Kimberly shares the joys and pitfalls of the writing life! Book signing to follow.
Of Cherokee/Celtic/Teutonic descent, Kimberly L. Becker is author of Words Facing East (2011) and The Dividings (2014), both from WordTech Editions. Her work appears widely, including the “Native American Women’s Poetry” folio in Drunken Boat, in Blackbird, and in an issue of Fulcrum focusing on Native/Mixed writers. In addition, her poetry has been anthologized in volumes such as Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2013) and Indigenous Message on Water (Indigenous World Forum on Water and Peace, 2014) and is forthcoming in Bared (Les Femmes Folles Books, 2016). Kimberly was recipient of an Individual Artist Award in Poetry from the Maryland State Arts Council and a prior grant from the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, Maryland funded her study of Cherokee language, history, and culture in Cherokee, NC. She has also been awarded residencies at Hambidge and Weymouth and was included among featured readers at The Florida Review’s “Native Writers in DC” at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. Kimberly’s interviews with other Native writers appear at Eclectica and her reviews have been published at Blackbird, as well as Eclectica, among other venues. She has published essays at Yellow Medicine Review and Talking Stick, as well as fiction at Dead Mule, Parting Gifts, and SNReview. Kimberly has also written for the Cherokee Youth in Radio Project, adapting traditional Cherokee stories into plays and her interview with the Project’s Instructor, EBCI member Shawn Crowe, was published at Eclectica. For more on Kimberly and her writing, please visit www.kimberlylbecker.com
Meetings are held on the second Tuesday of each month from 6-8 PM at the downtown Chattanooga Public Library (1001 Broad Street, 37402). They are free and open to the public. Invite your friends!
Schedule of Events
6:00-6:20 Meet and Greet
6:20-6:30 Announcements and Accolades
6:30-8:00 Program
The Chattanooga Writers’ Guild is a 501 (c) 3 not-for-profit organization.
Schedule of Events
6:00-6:20 Meet and Greet
6:20-6:30 Announcements and Accolades
6:30-8:00 Program
The Chattanooga Writers’ Guild is a 501 (c) 3 not-for-profit organization.